There should be five things that you do today. They should all involve string, live bait and an assortment of wild animals. Oh, and this, KICK IT.
‘3d’
This week in Design, Tech, CAD and FAB – SolidSmack Update 1:10
When the bluebonnets are dancing in the field and you feel a large antler near your spine, it’s best you not turn around. Simply put your headphones, tighten your belt on and scream, KICK IT.
This week in Design, Tech, CAD and FAB – SolidSmack Update 1:09
I know it’s the weekend. Time to work on the tan, take the horse for a ride, wax your bike and maybe even make that crumpet basket you’ve been reading about. But before you do all of that, sit back, relax and enjoy 3 minutes and 42 seconds of bliss. KICK IT.
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3D Holographic Touch or Kinect for CAD?
Who cares about the Cloud, when the ability to grab our models is out there? Virtually, that is, in a very awkward, ‘why is this sneeze guard in front of me’, ‘dangit I spilled the ranch dressing on the sunflower seeds’ type of way. Yet, as we fall down the rocky gorge of 3D software technology, with each sharp outcropping shattering another rib as we smile gleefully at the pain and possibility of unlimited data manipulating potential, the idea of direct interaction with our model becomes more real. All compounded and emotionally secured by endless iterations of 3D geometry that haunt our dreams throughout the night. Fabulous times. But, which way will it go? Will we touch the 3D data or will it simply see where we are and adapt accordingly? Or both?
Ask the Reader: What topics about 3D and Design interest you the most?
Well now, I hear some of you are in the mood for a really broad question with a very broad and generalized set of choices. EXCELLENT, I say! We’ve got just the question.
Today, we’re wondering what topics about 3D, design and any combination of the two, interest you the most. Why? Because there’s an anxious group of senior citizens waiting to take the results and make craft and quilt blocks from them! How fun is that!? In addition, we’re prepping to connect more content, but it totally depends on your choices, so…
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Did I miss something?? Let me know and I’ll add it! THE MORE, THE BETTER. So, wheel grams over to the computer and help her make a choice!
Image via Flickr
Friday Smackdown: Betty Sue Fatal
I found it, you! Sneaky it may be, but you don’t see me tossin’ arms and oatmeal about it. Good point though, it does go well with these links more than most forms of death.
Brian Despian – Robots and other Illustration like none other. Really, you may start to like robots and hat wearing fish again.
Learn an Instrument Online – Yes, as in music instruments. Guitar and drums. Now you actually have no excuses.
Make a DVD Case Hidden Cabinet – It’s the perfect size to hide your cat in when it’s being all cat like… or remote I guess.
Rollip.com – Create Polaroids? from your photos? YES.
Softslide – When you have to wear a wetsuit to fly 35 meters through the air, there’s awesomeness sure to ensue.
Steeetlights plus Bugs – Timelapsed video of buggies flying about under a streetlight. So beautiful, it almost makes you itch.
All You Can Jet – $599 to fly anywhere you want, as often as you like for a month. Pack Your bags.
The 3D Alphabet? Yep, and Why 3D Might Be More Confusing Than 2D
How many times do you look at somethign and say, “yeah, that would be MUCH COOLER in 3D.” Ya know, stuff like a book, a movie, or set of schematics for a miniature fusion reactor.
Yet, with all of the possibilities, there’s just something way to simple about the glyphs representing the English alphabet and Ji Lee is here to take care of that mess with a special conversion of the boring, old 2D alphabet into a spectacularly revolved 3D work of art.
Is the alphabet now more universal? or did 3D just get more confusing?
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Developing 3D Content Online. Are You Feeling the Itch?
So how many of you tore yourself out of a paper bag this morning ready to play with 3D online? hmm, nobody? Well, some of you may have a bit of an mild obsession itch about getting away from program installations and tedious upgrades to create and manage 3D online.
Wild Pockets is on the field with a OpenGL web app claiming “create whatever 3D you can imagine.” It would certainly see that way. They’re bringing 3D online, but they’re also not the only one’s after that market.
Check it out.
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Chik-Fil-A. Eat more… 3D Insects. Yum.
So much for inspiring kids to grow up becoming managers of salty, high fat, carb ridden fast food chains. Let’s inspire them to become engineers with the ability to bend biological matter (i.e. paperboard cutouts) to THEIR WILL.
Chick-fil-a is featuring ’3-D Insect Models’ as toys in the Kid’s Meal. Cool – introducing small, hungry brains to 3-dimensional processes for create creatures they torment the neighbor kids with. How fun is that. Pics after the break.
3D. Future. Interface. Oblong’s G-Speak User Environment
There is a mess of media with multi-touch this amd multi-touch that, but the single person that inspiring much of it is none other than futurist, John Underkoffler. You may not have seen him, but you would recognize his ideas for human-computer interfaces that have appeared in IronMan as well as Minority Report, Hulk and Aeon Flux.
He is now the chief scientist and part of the team working on the g-speak ‘spatial operating environment’ from oblong industries. Here’s the details and video of how you may be working in the future.
